Mind is your Business and Body the Greatest Gadget (2 Books in 1)

by Sadhguru

Once the residue of what you cut through sticks to the knife, in many ways that knife becomes more of a nuisance than a help. Or in other words, once your intellect identifies with something or the other, it gets chained with the identifications.

Mind is not a cap on life, mind is a way to liberate life.

Morality is the major problem. One of the biggest problems is, right from one’s childhood, what is right and what is wrong has been imposed on the mind. People have taught you what is good and what is bad. But good and bad are very, very strong points of identity. You naturally get identified with whatever you consider good, and you are naturally repelled from whatever you consider bad.

Having an aversion to something and an attraction towards something else is the basis of identification. Whatever you are averse to dominates your mind.

There is no subtraction or division in the mind, there is only addition and multiplication. You cannot take away anything by force from the mind.

It is because people realized that identification is causing so much trouble that they immediately started giving you an antidote – “detachment.” The moment you detach yourself, your ability to experience life is also gone. Where there is no involvement, there is no life. Life cannot be experienced unless there is involvement – the deeper the involvement, the deeper the experience of life. However small the event may be, however small a piece of life may be, if you are deeply involved, it is a great experience for you.

If you detach yourself from

life, you are avoiding life. You are here to experience life, not to avoid life.

It is the identification which is causing entanglement, not the involvement.

If your involvement is indiscriminate, you would simply be involved with all life around you in just the same way – with the very air that you breathe, with the very land that you stand on. Involvement enhances life in a tremendous way.

Only if life is happening exuberantly within, can it carry you to higher possibilities.

Involvement is not an act, it is a certain willingness towards life – you have become willing to the process of life.

If you get identified, you are becoming unwilling to the process of life – you are only willing in selection, you are not willing with the rest of life.

It is this unwillingness which is scaling down the alivenes...

In the circus, the trapeze bars and trapeze ropes are always tied in such a way that the trapeze

artists will get to reach each other only if they go full swing. If any one of them is a little unwilling, the circus will collapse.

a campaign can be run to make you believe just about anything. If we campaign hard enough, we can make you worship anything, hate anything, love anything, and give up your life for anything. We just have to work on your identifications. How strong your identity is, and how far you are willing to go. People get so identified because of these campaigns and everything gets distorted.

Someone does irresponsible things only because he is not free – he is not free in his mind, he is too identified with himself and nothing else. That is why he can harm somebody else. If he is not identified even with himself, no harm can come out of such a human being.

The brain is a physical thing. It is the body. It has a

certain function which is essential for the mind to exist. But the mind is a certain consequence and activity. For example, suppose you are speaking. Your speech exists. If you stop speaking and sit quietly, where is your speech? Is it sitting and waiting in your mouth? No. It just does not exist. Your speech exists only when you are in that activity. Otherwise, it does not.

If you turn off the mind, it is not just off – it ceases to exist. If you turn it on, it is again there. It is like a cinema. When a cinema is on, it is more real than real. Then, with just one switch, it vanishes. It does not matter whether a war scene is going on or a love scene is going on, you turn off one power switch, it is gone.

If it becomes a conscious cinema, there is no problem.

There is nothing wrong with the cinema.

I am not saying your movie is bad. It does not matter what kind of movie it is, if it is on all the time, it is a horror. You can enjoy the movie only if you can turn it on and turn it off when you want. Then it is a wonderful movie.

No matter what you have or how much you have, you will still live an unfulfilled life.

If you live within the ambit of the body, it knows only survival and procreation, nothing else.

There is nothing wrong with that, it is just limited, that is all. The truth is, the physical body has to play only that much of a role in your life.

If all that you have known is just the body and you are going to lose the whole of it, fear becomes the way to live.

There is nothing wrong with your hormones, it is just that they are compulsive. Once you live a compulsive life, you are living the life of a slave.

Desperation comes because you are trying to make a small aspect of your life into everything. It will not work.

Everything has to play only as much of a role as it has to play in your life. If you try to make it the whole, it will not work.

your home can probably do without a television, maybe even without a telephone, but it definitely cannot do without a garbage bin. The quality of your house is very much decided by the garbage bin. But because it is such a useful device in your house, suppose you decided to sleep in it tonight, then it becomes terrible.

It takes a lot of intelligence to see “I am stupid.” The difference between a stupid person and an intelligent one is that an intelligent person knows he is stupid, but an idiot does not.

If you look at every life, if you look at how every atom is functioning, you will realize you are stupid. Everything in existence is happening with a phenomenal sense of intelligence. The very soil you walk upon is tremendously intelligent. If you plant a mango seed and a neem seed, the mango produces sweetness, the neem produces bitterness. It is the same soil. Has the land ever become a little confused and made mangos come out of a neem seed? Everything is spot on. Even inanimate things are dead sure of what they are doing. The only confused fool is a human being.

If you don’t pay any attention to your thought, it will just die. Don’t pay attention to it. But you cannot stop paying attention to it unless you think or see that your thoughts are so petty and quite stupid compared to the rest of the existence.

don’t try to have pure thoughts. Pure thoughts are most dangerous because you will get terribly attached to them. What is a pure thought? Is there such a thing? There is nothing pure or impure about a thought. Whatever the content of your mind, it just throws itself

out.

If you consciously generate a thought, that is different. Then you will naturally create the kind of thought you want. Otherwise, these thoughts are ...

If thoughts are going on continuously, if you are having mental diarrhea, you obv...

The moment you identify yourself with something that you are not, you are finished – your mind is in a continuous run. There is no other way. Do what you want, try as hard as you want, it is not going to stop.

If I want to move my hand, I move my hand. If I don’t want to, I keep it still. This is a useful body. Suppose it was moving all the time, wouldn’t this be a crazy body? If the same thing is happening to your mind, is that not a crazy mind? Your only comfort is that others cannot see it. If your body did it, everyone could see it.

“Tomorrow” is the deepest cunning of your mind. The mind will not say, “I won’t do it.” If your mind says, “I won’t do it,” your ego will say, “I will do it.” That is the nature of your ego.

happen. If you look for the takeaway, you will only take petty things. The real thing will never come with you. If you want the real thing, you just have to drop this one simple calculation. If you just pull the plug, if you just destroy this one calculation, the very foundations of the mind are taken away. Suddenly it is different, it becomes a wonderful slave.

Right now your mind is the boss, you are the slave. The main aspect of meditation is, as you become more meditative, you become the boss, your mind becomes the slave, and that is how it should always be.

Once in a while, if I just close my doors and sit in a place for five days, I do not have a single thought for five days. I don’t look out of the window, I don’t read, I don’t do anything. I am simply being alive. This is such a huge phenomenon happening within you, what is there to think about? Being alive is a far bigger process than your stupid thought process.

Can you think something other than the nonsense that has been fed into your head? You are just recycling the old data you have gathered.

Existence is, even without your silly thoughts.

Which is more important, living or thinking? You must decide this – do you want to be a living being or a thinking being? Right now, ninety percent of the time, you are only thinking about life, not living life.

Your psychological process is a very small happening compared to the life process. Isn’t being alive right now more important for you than thinking?

Thought has become far more important than the life process because people have not realized the immensity of what it means to be alive.